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Asperger's Children - The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Paperback)
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Asperger's Children - The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Paperback)
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In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought
to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children
he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as
compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced
by Nazi psychiatry. Although he offered care to children he deemed
promising, he prescribed harsh institutionalisation and even
transfer to one of the Reich's killing centres, for children with
greater disabilities. With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer
reveals the heart-breaking voices and experiences of many of these
children, whilst illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting
the population into categories, cataloguing people by race,
heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality and biological
defects-labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or
persecution and extermination.
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